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A U.S. Marine and Iraqi Army soldiers watch over the surrounding streets from a rooftop in Karabilah, Iraq, during Operation Steel Curtain on Nov. 11, 2005. The intent of Steel Curtain is to restore Iraqi sovereign control along the Iraq-Syria border and destroy the al Qaeda network operating throughout the Qaim region. DoD photo by Cpl. Neill A. Sevelius, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) (Released to Public) Location: KARABILAH, AL ANBAR IRQ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

U.S. PSYOP leaflet disseminated in Iraq. It shows a caricature of Al-Qa`eda terrorist al-Zarqawi caught in a rat trap. The caption reads "This is your future, Zarqawi" (هذا مستقبلك يا زرقاوي). Taken from http://www.psywar.org/ with permission. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Again, your allegations, your rules.
The possibilities and likelihoods of unknown and uncalculated perturbing and/or moderating influences is not convenient to recognize nor theorize when one must allege knowledge of what is happening.
Modeling is an unproven and unprovable exercise in mathematical mental masturbation founded in hypothesis and flogged as revelation.
Identifying and quantifying processes are scientific endeavour. Proceeding to flaunt hubris of certainty and disallowing - and suppressing - consideration of shortcomings is not dialogue.
Propaganda is not an unconsidered evaluation in such a case. Nor does devaluing past ideas lend support to certainty about the new lot.

As a journalist, Ellen Brown's passion for research led her to ask a simple question about where our money and banking come from: Why do we repeat the cycle of privatizing bank profits in the good times, and publicly owning their losses in the bad times? Her answer may surprise you.

"All things considered, the hypocrisy is plainly clear. It is therefore not only necessary but also imperative to oppose the dangerous propaganda and warmongering spread by the most aggressive factions within the U.S. and Israeli establishments, and ensure that truth prevails over rampant militarization."

"If left unchecked, this destructive militarism of the U.S. shall only led to the further impoverishment of the nation's already beleaguered working class, not to mention the grave imperilment of working people globally."

The British government’s announcement that it intends to spy on every email and phone call is old hat. The satellite vacuum cleaner known as Echelon has been doing this for years. What has changed is that a state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy. What are you going to do about it?

As everybody knows by now (except the sheep that believe anything the fascist criminal run US government tells them as fact) the 911 attacks were a CIA/Mossad/Saudi Arabian false flag planned operation but the cover up also involves both th...See More

by Michel Chossudovsky: The US Secretary of State's "Love Affair" with the KLA

"In point of fact, the Western counter-terrorism pretext is not shifting; it is more accurately being extended to Africa, as NATO is continuing its illegal occupation and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan."

As the scramble for Ugandan oil heats up, a documentary about Joseph Kony's 20 year campaign of terror has become an online cause celebre and is once again energizing the public for military campaigns abroad. But what is the public not being told about the background of US involvement in the region, and what will come of the public's growing support for military intervention?

Since September 2001, Global Research has been bringing our readers a broad spectrum of voices analyzing global situations, from military threats against Iran and Syria, to the economic machinations of the financial elite. And we will continue to do so because we believe that access to information is the key to the truth.

As reported in the media, Gert Fylking, a well-known Swedish radio host, was suspended after his insinuation concerning Serbian similarities with the notorious mass killer Anders Breivik, calling them "damned pigs, psychopaths and retards."

"What the heck is going on in America? In less than a week’s time a second state has put a foot down making it clear that it will not cooperate with Federal Law which is blatantly unconstitutional. Yesterday Arizona became the second state to pass a nullification of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)."

As the so-called "international community" once again meets to mouth political platitudes about stopping nuclear proliferation, many are now pointing to the numerous pieces of evidence demonstrating that, contrary to their official position, these very governments are invested in the proliferation of nuclear materials and nuclear weapons around the globe.

"Why does an ignorant American public think it knows more than experts? Why do Americans believe a government that told them the intentional lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction despite the fact that the weapons inspectors reported to President Bush that Hussein had no such weapons? And now we see the same thing all over again with the alleged, but non-existent, Iranian nukes."

Source: Naval War College Review, Vol. XXVII (May-June, 1975), pp. 51-108. Also in U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States: 1950, Volume I.

Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world’s growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land.

Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and th...

"On March 29 in Ottawa, the Canadian House of Commons passed the federal government’s latest round of budget cuts and austerity measures. Highlights included chopping 19,200 public sector jobs, cutting federal programs by $5.2 billion per year, and raising the retirement age for millions of Canadians from 65 to 67. The justification for the cuts was a massive federal debt that is now over C$ 581 billion, or 84% of GDP."

"Armed with their billions, these NGOs have waded into the world, turning potential revolutionaries into salaried activists, funding artists, intellectuals and filmmakers, gently luring them away from radical confrontation, ushering them in the direction of multi-culturalism, gender, community development—the discourse couched in the language of identity politics and human rights."

Cops Slam Obama for Same Old "Drug War" BudgetApril 17, 2012 Despite Promises, President Continues Split Favoring Punishment Over Treatment World Leaders Call for New Direction in Drug Policy WASHINGTON, DC — A group of police officers, judges and prosecu …

Red Cross Calls for Drug DecriminalizationMarch 30, 2012In a little-noticed statement to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has said that drug use should not be a crime. Her …

The Fountainhead of Drug ProhibitionMarch 28, 2012By James E. Gierach I recently returned to Chicago from a week in Vienna, Austria, having attending the 55th annual session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). Vienna is the home of the …

Before the 1990s, this form of diabetes was hardly ever seen in children. It is still uncommon, but experts say any increase in such a serious disease is troubling. There were about 3,600 new cases a year from 2002 to 2005, the latest years for which data is available.

The research is the first large study of Type 2 diabetes in children, “because this didn’t used to exist,” said Dr. Robin Goland, a member of the research team and co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She added, “These are people who are struggling with something that shouldn’t happen in kids who are this young.”

"You purchase once and you can get the book on any device. And I mean any. Kindle, iPad (through iBooks), Google Play (whatever that is) and Sony who appear to have provided the technical grunt to get this working. There is no other major book that is available this way. Actually, probably no other paid book available this way.

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So what does this mean? The whole concern over eBooks was potential device lock-in. We are worried about being tied to Amazon or Apple or what have you forever. This same thing is preventing entry or inroads by others such as Sony. The Rowling initiative breaks through all of that. It is device independent for the first time in this industry."

There's obviously other books that have gone this route- but nobody this big has done it before today. The future of publishing is awesome.

Since it works similar to Dropbox, I figured I'd try out syncing a VoodooPad 5 document from Mac to Mac. And sure enough, it worked just fine. I saw new pages being added and modified, without having to close a document.

"April 20 is the counter-culture “holiday” on which lots and lots of people come together to advocate marijuana legalization (or just get high). Should drugs—especially marijuana—be legal? The answer is “yes.” Immediately. Without hesitation. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 seized in a civil asset forfeiture. The war on drugs has been a dismal failure. It’s high time to end prohibition. Even if you aren’t willing to go whole-hog and legalize all drugs, at the very least we should legalize marijuana."

I'm tempted to quote the whole (relatively short) article since it touches on just about every reason I support full legalization of marijuana.

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